TITLE: Tower
NAME: Paul Potiki
COUNTRY: Australia
EMAIL: guanolad@hotkey.net.au
TOPIC: Laboratory
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JPGFILE: tower.jpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Lightwave 5.5

TOOLS USED: 
    Photoshop for textures

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HARDWARE USED: 
    Pentium III, 550 mhz, 32Mb Matrox G400



IMAGE DESCRIPTION: 


Laboratory as a subject didn't really inspire much out of me. I only saw a
narrow range of options, none of which really appealed. So I extrapolated, and
bent the rules a bit. I went back in time a few hundred years, and went a
little fantastic. End result, the mediaeval equivalent of a Laboratory is a
Wizard's Tower!

I don't have Poser, so I have no human figures to manipulate. Therefore I chose
a long distance shot. I think with the glowy flashy magic and the moonlit
castle, it came out very effectively.



DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: 


A simple tower, the most complicated part was the windows.

I found a tree object and repeated it a few times.

Then I placed stars in the sky.

Taking those star objects I reduced them in size, then removed about 2/3 of the
cluster. I repeated them four times and altered each one's colour, then jiggled
them around a bit. Applying illumination and glow effect, that was my magical
sparkles.

The wizard is basically a cardboard cutout, meant only as a silhouette.

And that's it. :-)